Review: Brave New World
Filed under Reviews on August 22, 2006
Keywords: Aldous Huxley, books, Brave New World
I recently checked out a couple classics from the library in my continued quest to become “well-read.” The first one I finished was Aldous Huxley’s futuristic tale of utopia.
The first two chapters of this book were perhaps the most chilling and repulsive visions of genetic culling I’ve ever read (and I’ve read 1984 and A Handmaiden’s Tale). Huxley describes the inner workings of the Central London Hatchery & Conditioning Center, where humans are manufactured to fill different working castes within society.
The story’s pace is fast, but I didn’t feel rushed until the end. Huxley does a masterful job of showing the different facets of society. The glimpses of the savages on the reservation seemed a little shallow, but that could have just been a product of seeing it through civilization’s point of view.
Even though there was the cliche debate between the savage and one of the World Controllers, I never felt preached at. In fact, Huxley did a good job of keeping any personal biases out of the narrative, which made Brave New World a very enjoyable read.
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